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Gardening is all about optimism.I put a seed in the ground.I consistently tend it,confident I will see the results, in time,of the nurture I have provided.- Mary Anne Radmacher

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous topropagate a pessimistic philosophy.- Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering,it is full also of the overcoming of it.My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,but on a glad belief in the preponderance of goodand a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,that it may prevail.- Helen Keller

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.- Colin Powell

Optimism is the harmony between man's spiritand of God pronouncing His works good.- Helen Keller

If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbookand look for ideas you can apply today -perhaps an innocent optimism about life -perhaps a hobby you loved.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.- Voltaire

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word,and I entertain an active and intense dislike of theforegoing mixture of optimism,fatalism, and conservatism.- Herbert Croly

Optimism is the opium of the people.- Milan Kundera

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is moreand you have more imagination etc.You have less bias.- Abdul Kalam

Comedy is acting out optimism.- Robin Williams

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is,in my opinion, a form of optimism.- Roberto Rossellini

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we maynow be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.- Stephen Hawking

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,including what is ugly.- Ambrose Bierce

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity isa system of radical optimism.- William Ralph Inge

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.- Arnold Bennett

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.A smile.A world of optimism and hope.A "you can do it" when things are tough.- Richard M. DeVos

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.- Paul Fussell

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War,made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.- Stephen Ambrose

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.- Havelock Ellis

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant -the digitalis of failure.- Elbert Hubbard

There is no fun in psychiatry.If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerableprice for your unjustifiable optimism.- Harry Stack Sullivan

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism.I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.- Patricia Ireland

Optimism is the foundation of courage.- Nicholas M. Butler

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism,the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.- Howard Mumford Jones

What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan...is that great sense of optimism.He led by building on the strengths of America,not running America down.- Rudy Giuliani

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.- Brian May

One of the things I learned the hard way was that itdoesn' t pay to get discouraged.Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life canrestore your faith in yourself.- Lucille Ball

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.- Henry Rollins

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.- Albert Meltzer

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.- Leni Riefenstahl

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizingthe way we do politics in this country.- Joan Blades

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.- William James

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilledconfidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.- Jim Ramstad

My optimism for life carried through my work.- John Dyer

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is alsothe foundation of courage and true progress.- Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the key.- Will Champion

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.- Raymond Aron

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm.Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.- Krzysztof Kieslowski

These are the soul's changes.I don't believe in ageing.I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.Hence my optimism.- Virginia Woolf

We must return optimism to our parenting.To focus on the joys, not the hassles;the love,not the disappointments; the common sense,not the complexities.- Fred G. Gosman

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.- Margery Allingham

Optimism with some experience behind it is much moreenergizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.- Twyla Tharp

The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.- George Santayana

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism.But I do not rule out optimism.- Jim Leach

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.- Robert Hewison

Optimism doesn't wait on facts.It deals with prospects.Pessimism is a waste of time.- Norman Cousins

The average pencil is seven inches long,with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.- Robert Brault

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity.Is there any need to choose between them?- Francis Parker Yockey

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.- Antonio Gramsci

So this is the space during tutoring hours.It's very busy.Same principles: one-on-one attention,complete devotion to the students' work and a boundlessoptimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.- Dave Eggers

There is only one optimist.He has been here since man has been on this earth,and that is man himself.If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carryus through all these things,we wouldn't be here.We have survived it on our optimism.- Edward Steichen

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,but the certainty that something makes sense,regardless of how it turns out.- Vaclav Havel

That is why, with optimism instead of fear,all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolvedshould seek the truth about each option,including the upside and the downside of each.- Dick Thornburgh

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism andgenerosity in regard to people in general,to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitationon the number of people involved in the creation.- Earle Brown

My optimism is not based primarily on the successfulmarch of democracy in recent times but rather is basedon the experience of having lived in a fear societyand studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.- Natan Sharansky

There was just this amazing individuality.It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness,women taking off their bras and dancing around naked,and a political hopefulness and involvement.- Jill Clayburgh

And for all my rampant technological optimism,sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I wereregarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove...instead of twenty.- Vernor Vinge

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things.People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.'I never said I was an optimist.I have hope because what's the alternative to hope?Despair? If you have despair,you might as well put your head in the oven.- Studs Terkel

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30sin America because I love the music and the style and the optimism,I wanted to see New York being built.I wanted to see all that, you know.- Billy Connolly

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world.Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one'sphysical health to be an optimist.But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.- Todd Solondz

But before looking to the future, let's glance backat the road we've traveled these past two years becausethat is the source of much of the optimism we are allfeeling about the future.- Linda Lingle

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation.For despair, optimism is the only practical solution.Hope is practical.Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary.Hope at least gives you the option of living.- Harry Nilsson

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe,often with the passion of youthful optimism,that feminism is a battle already won.I worry for them - and for my daughters,too.- Louise Brown